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To level above 600 you need to find Brittle Cartography Journal while surveying.ArchaeologyCataclysmThe LorewalkersDig SitesArchaeology Improvements

You get six digs instead of three.

The resulting item is not a white that turns into vendor trash. Instead, it is turned into a crated box--which stacks!

These crates can be redeemed with the Lorewalkers. It's not implemented yet, but there's been talk of the Lorewalkers providing your character with more dialogue and cut-scenes about the artifacts you bring to them.

You can turn in one Pandaren artifact a day for 5 Valor Points: Uncovering the Past.

Completing a dig site will sometimes spawn an Ancient Horror, a sha that drops more archaeology fragments.

The tooltips for completed objects now helpfully point out that there's more lore in the Archaeology Journal. A common complaint in Cataclysm was that most players didn't know about this.

Lorewalker's Map: Use: Randomizes your Archaeology digsites in Pandaria. (30 Min Cooldown)

Lorewalker's Lodestone: Use: Teleports you to a random active digsite in Pandaria. (30 Min Cooldown)

Boxes of archaeology fragments for each race have been added. Perhaps you will be able to turn in fragments you don't want for a more useful type. All of these crates require 600 skill.

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Comment by apel

i love the lore part of the game, so uncovering things of the past to learn will be amazing. I also love how it will do nothing dps wise, would hate to see "LFM <dungeon> PST gs, achievement, and archaeology or i ignore"

Comment by tmptfate

This might just be the best profession in the entire game come Cataclysm. And the best part about it, its a secondary, so everyone can get it without having to give up a primary profession. :D

Cant wait to see what we can dig up around the ravaged world of Azeroth!

Comment by Tsuwulf

I can dig it.

Comment by HoboBoxes

This looks like alot more fun than fishing.

Comment by DanJack

Posted in 3.3 (Cata Beta)
"I though I'd post a 1st look at Archaeology. It is pretty simple. (So far) and this is what I have learned. Something I learned that I might also not be common knowledge is that there are only 4 dig sites in ever continent. (Northrend, Outlands, Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdom.) So 16 sites total at one time. But they change once you do one. (in that continent) Another thing is they can be really far spread out at time. I tried to log in and log out too see if the spawn points change and they did NOT. So that didn't work. Well this is my 1st look at it and as we know any of this can all change!"

Also as of 4.3
Don't solve any artifacts until you reach 50 skill. You will stop going skill points at 50 and once you do that you will have a ton of fragments. After you hit 50 Solve whatever you can, and you will earn so many more point then doing it before 50. When I shot from 50 points straight to 105 and found 1 rare item.

Comment by Chibchub123

You can't do anything with orc, draenei, vrykul, nerubian, or tol'vir artifacts until you reach required level. (300 for orc/draenei, 375 vrykul/nerubian, and 450 for tol'vir)

Comment by Kirska

Here is how you actually find artifacts...

After you've learned the profession, open up your map and zoom out to the continent level. Find the little shovel symbols on your map. Those are the dig sites. Go to one and use the skill that you learned with the profession.

A little telescope looking thing will pop up (if it doesn't, you're not at the dig site, or you've already found all the artifacts there). The telescope thing will point you in the direction of your next find. It will also have a color on top of a post. Red means you are far away, yellow means you are kinda close, and green means you only have a small bit further.

Move in the direction it points and use the skill again. Repeat until an artifact pops up instead of the telescope.

Repeat that process until you get an error that you can't use your skill anymore. That means there's nothing left at that dig site.

Have fun ;)

Comment by shonksh

No murloc artifacts? Staff of Mrgl-gurgle-urgle?

Comment by okibalko2

im pretty sure there are gonna be so many Indiana Jones puns about this profession

Comment by Luminatti

I can only hope we do not exploit third world zones and create a market for "blood fragments".

Comment by Blindo

With High enough archeology you can find and complete quests inside each of the new dungeons. These quests cost a keystone and grant your party a zone wide buff.

Dwarf Rune Stone:

Highborne Scroll:

Throne of the Tides

Tol'Vir Hieroglyphic:

Comment by Mulig

Just a hint, if you just dug up something. Use survey once again, if you're lucky there might be several fragments at the same spot.
Just after an hour or so I've gotten two fragments at two different spots and three fragments at one single spot.

Comment by Pseudo

My tips after a bit of surveying:

1) When you survey and get a fragment, re-survey before you take off.. Your new fragment location might be the same one you just did!
2) Signals when surveying:
-- Red Signal Surveys -- only accurate to about a 180 degree arc.. I recommend taking off, flying for 3 seconds (the CD of survey) and trying again.
-- Yellow Surveys -- fairly accurate (I'd estimate ~30 degree arc, depending on distance), Follow the pointer dead on for ~40 yards and re-evaluate (You'll get the feel)
-- Green Surveys -- Very close, but could still be ~25-30 yards away.. 2 Methods: 1) Walk and survery (can be slower, or can be faster) 2) Big steps -- Go 15 yards from your first green survey, if it points backwards you know amost exactly where it is.. otherwise, you just narrowed it down and can probably do method 1 from here.

Comment by panica

So I have 1 interesting question, when you open Archeology, and you look that window, you can see 10 races to discover their fragments. But there are only 9 races to discover for now, Troll, Night Elf, Dwarf, Fossil, Orc, Draenei, Nerubian, Vrykul, Tol'vir. So the question is, whom does the 10th fragments belong to?

Comment by antioch

When surveying a new dig, always look for items on the ground, or ruins/objects that are natural in the zone. Even a patch of grass or sand that looks slightly off is a good clue to look for. From my experience, more often than not an artifact is located here!
This is nonsense, there are no modifications to the terrain that determines where an artifact may be located. Artifacts objects are not spawned until you're close enough to the randomly chosen coordinates. Spawn points may be predetermined to avoid object collisions or visibility difficulties, much like herb and ore nodes, however this statement above is equivalent to saying you know that an ore node is going to spawn at some random location you've never seen before because you can tell from the cut of its jib.

Comment by JustinGN

My experience with Archaeology on US-Bloodhoof:

To start, find the trainer in a major capitol city. Despite what WoWHead says, I have found trainers in Orgrimmar and Thunder Bluff, in addition to Dalaran. There should be one in every major city for ease of training, though it seems only the trainers in Orgrimmar and Stormwind give the appropriate L85 dailies for the profession.

Once you train Archaeology, check your map. You will see little shovel icons on the continent view of your world map; clicking on zone with a shovel icon in it will show the digsite you need to find, highlighted and circled in either red or grey (though the grey circle seems to be more a graphical glitch for now). Start heading there and you'll be ready to begin.

When you land in a digsite, you can usually tell right away what artifacts you'll get from it. Bones in sand or muddy areas signify fossils, Highbourne Ruins signify Night Elf relics, desert ruins for Trolls, etc. Kalimdor is high in Fossils and Night Elves, while Eastern Kingdoms has a higher proportion of Troll and Dwarven digsites, though you can find at least one site for each race on both continents.

For those of you starting this profession at 80, you'll find it very slow going at first as you criss-cross the continent to get to digsites. My advice is to go in either a clockwise or counter-clockwise circle around the entire continent, taking an "as the crow flies" approach to each site.

Digging for Artifacts: When you use your new "survey" ability, your character will drop a telescope and a box with a light on it. From here, you have two options to find the artifact. The first, orienteering, involves dropping your survey kit, and going in the direction the telescope is pointing. This method focuses on the strict direction the telescope is pointing in, and the color of the light: red light signifies a long journey (usually a hop halfway across or to the opposite end of the site), a yellow light means a short jaunt until the survey ability comes off CD, and green means you're fairly close (within 30 yards). There's a second, potentially quicker method: triangulation. While striding the edge of the dig site, you can drop three survey stations and focus on the point where all three directions intersect. This usually pinpoints the exact or approximate location of an artifact, but takes time to plot out the exact point or area; an addon could make triangulation more popular, but it's unlikely we'll see one soon.

Either way, when you find the artifact site and use your survey ability again, it will dig up the artifact instead of dropping your survey kit. Collect the item, and repeat the process two more times to exhaust the site. It's important to note that you apparently need to be within 5 meters of the artifact itself for it to spawn when you survey, otherwise you'll drop your survey kit and have to keep looking. However, as the cone of surveying is much smaller when the light is green, it won't be too difficult to find and collect.

When you loot an artifact, you get 2xShards at Apprentice (75), and 3xShards Journeyman (125) and above (currently confirmed to 227). After you collect your first shard for a race, the project will be determined and locked in (so you know exactly what you're working on). Once a project is completed, the item is awarded and can usually be sold for 5 to 20 silver (Note: You won't make any real money doing archaeology; this is strictly for fun and toys and lore), or otherwise utilized if it's a toy, pet or mount. Even if you sell the result of your project, your Archaeology panel will always keep track of the artifacts you've completed, and the associated flavor text and history for that artifact. Once you complete a project, another one will be randomly chosen from the available list. NOTE: Blizzard has stated that archaeology projects will not be repeated until all other common projects for that race are completed; currently, this does not seem to be the case on Live servers, as I have gotten a project history similar to Wand>Music Box>Coin>Music Box>Clasp>Music Box>Ring>Music Box on my Night Elf queue. Once this is fixed, you are guaranteed to eventually complete every common artifact for a race before repeating any project. This does NOT apply to rare projects, which have fixed "spawn" rates and can only be completed once per character.

Sample Numbers:
0 Night Elf Projects completed, 8 common projects and 2 rare projects available in the "pool": 80% chance for a common, 20% for a rare.
7 Night Elf Projects completed, 1 common project and 2 rare projects available in the "pool": 80% chance for the last remaining common project, 20% for a rare project.

Those are very basic numbers based on my experience with project completion thus far, though it's still subject to change this early into the expansion and profession.

Leveling Archaeology:
Each artifact you collect and dig up in the old world grants one skill point, up to a maximum of 75 points in the skill. After that point you must complete projects, which yield 5 points per project regardless of rarity or size (Confirmed with my two rares, Fossilized Hatchling and some Night Elf Mirror). Therefore, it's advised that you save your shards until you max out the Apprentice skill, then train into the next level and complete all your projects at once.

As you dig up artifacts, you have a chance to acquire Keystone items, which are essentially uncommon greens that fill in part of certain projects. At 80 with 227 skill, each old world Keystone seems to fill 12 shards on a project, with larger projects having more slots for keystones to be used. The most I've seen have been 3 slots on an 85 shard project. It should be noted that these greens are not souldbound, and can be sold or traded with friends. So, if your Tauren Paladin has a surplus if Night Elf keystones, but your friend the Undead Priest has a surplus of Dwarven or Troll keystones, you can easily swap them to complete your respective projects quicker.

Once you hit 300 with Archaeology, you can proceed to dig in Outland, home of the Orc and Draenai artifacts. Again, four sites across the continent will be chosen, and each site has three artifacts. When you hit 375, you can move to Northrend, with additional sites to dig up related to Nerubians and Vry'kul. Finally, when you hit 425 (possibly 450), you can start digging in the new Cataclysm content to discover more about the Tol'Vir.

It's worth noting that while you can only have one project going at a time on a particular race, you can have as many projects going as you have races in your Dig Book. Finally, as a level 82 on US-Bloodhoof, I'm netting 8500XP per artifact - while not the quickest way to level, it's still a substantial amount of experience just for digging in the dirt, and there's plenty of toys and items to be had if you're willing to put in the effort. There's also plenty of hidden areas added in the Cataclysm that you'll fly over while digging for artifacts, including an interesting island full of fellow Archaeologist NPCs!

Whether a distraction between heroics, a dedicated profession/hobby, or just a way to mix things up on herb/mining/skinning runs, there's plenty of stuff in Archaeology to dig for, and the back end design means it's less Random Number Generation, and more perseverance. Good luck!

Comment by tempest024

My experiences with Archaeology have been mixed so far. From 1 to 100 it was exciting to pickup points with each dig. The realization that Archaeology took more work than fishing sunk in going from 101 to 225 but it helped me become better at it. I strongly recommend Archaeologists continue to dig and gather fragments until you have reached 100. After 100 you can start solving puzzles and gaining 5 point skill increases. Use keystones whenever possible to complete puzzles since not every artifact allows you to use them.

I have only concluded that there are three rules to Archaeology.

1. A red survey means there are absolutely no artifacts within walking range.
2. Artifacts are found on land and not while swimming in water.
3. Travel in direction a yellow survey points you for the duration of the five-second cool down.

The terrain you search on changes the results of your red surveys. On terrain that is heavily broken up with multiple levels such as Jintha’Alor, Slitherblade Shoreline, Valley of Bones, and the Ruins of Zul’Mamwe; the red survey tool is wildly inaccurate and you can find yourself making three to six surveys to before you get a yellow or green survey. I have found that heading in the general direction the red survey points you in on level terrain tend to lead you to areas where there are artifacts. Typically I would mount up on my flyer and head in that direction for five to six seconds.

Comment by Panik8

Farming Archaelogy to 525 from level 80 will bring you to level 83.
Each succesful dig gives XP, ~5k @80, ~7k @81, ~9k @82, ~11k @83.

Comment by gtadem

It's been said before, but I wanted to reiterate: DO NOT SOLVE PROJECTS UNTIL YOU HAVE A SKILL OF 100. At 100, collecting fragments no longer offers skillups. With Cataclysm being new, it might not be easy to be patient, but it pays off. To put things into perspective, when I hit 100 archaeology skill, I was almost instantly at 175 skill from solving all the projects I could, including using any keystones I had.

As of right now, the Dwarf racial Explorer tooltip suggests that Dwarves get two advantages in archaeology. In practice, only one is functional at this time; the fact that they survey faster. Which is nigh on useless considering that Survey still has a 5 sec CD.

Wowhead's list of items that can be created shows a list of keystones for some items. This is an indication of the amount of such that you CAN use (to the tune of 12 fragments each), not what is actually required to make it. It is my opinion that you are best suited using them as able. If you get a surplus, advertise and trade with others for ones you don't have. I wouldn't recommend completing a project that CAN use a keystone until you have a keystone to feed it.

One last thing: When you survey, if your light is red, the direction it's pointing is not necessarily accurate. As such, don't travel too far before surveying again. Otherwise, you might find yourself on a seemingly senseless zig-zag pattern often.

Comment by JustinGN

Further clarification:

It seems that percentages don't change when a rare project is completed, from my experiences. My ratios in common to rare projects in the Night Elf area is 39 to 4, which comes out to roughly 9% of my projects being rares or epics. When factoring in that each time a new project is determined, the odds for Night Elf are always 73/27 and so 10% rare rate seems about right. I want to say that the odds stay 73/27 even when you only have one rare project left to finish, but I don't have the hard math to back up such a claim.

To put it bluntly, you will get every rare eventually, and have a much better chance of getting the rare you want in a reasonable amount of time through Archaeology, than you do getting a drop % mount in the same amount of time.

Another fact: I'm sure many folks are surprised initially that the Tol'Vir ratio is 54/46 for common to rare, and having capped at 525, I've found there's good reason for this. Even at 84 with 525 Archaeology, getting a Tol'Vir digsite alone is considered "rare", since only one zone in the entire game has the sites: Uldum. So even though the shard counts are identical to other projects, you'll see an increase in available keystone slots on projects for the Tol'Vir to speed things along. That said, with a 50/50 epic to common drop rate, it's well worth your time grinding other races until you get some sites in Uldum.

One final note: for those of you with outstanding amounts of patience (like me), due to the rarity of Tol'Vir sites, the lucrative abilities and stats of their artifacts, and the fact that every project has at least one, if not three keystone slots...you can make quite a killing off the Tol'Vir Keystones. I've been selling every one I loot for 1.5K on the AH, and they're snapped up within minutes by the lazy and rich players of the realm seeking a quick purple or vanity epic. In fact, they sell so fast I'm considering doubling my price, seeing as how I control the entire keystone market on my realm.

Remember when I said archaeology won't make you money? Well, apparently I was mistaken. If you're willing to sell the shortcut items, you can make quite the pretty penny from the profession.

Comment by SmokinHots

Keep in mind that you can buy the green items associated with archaeology off the AH, though expensive as hell atm (100g - 400g) having a steady flow of them will make your leveling go much faster.

Like others are saying, im finding after holding onto four or so dwarf rune stones that i am now digging them up faster than i can use them. so be sure to use them liberally whenever available.

... something else alot of people are saying that leveling in outlands when they hit 300 sped their leveling up. while i can see the more circular nature of outlands being faster to traverse than the much larger old world zones. Without any zeppelins, boats or mode of travel faster than a 310% mount (other than A-52 / Toshleys teleporters) you will spend more time flying to and fro in outlands then you could if you were stategically using zepplins, boats and your hearthstone(s) in the eastern kingdoms.

Better loot available from old world surveying anyhow imo. When i can skip past outlands i intend to do so but for now im still hopin for one of the many old world epics compared to the what two? good drops from orc/draenei.

Havent seen a Tomb Raider reference yet, anyone else know of one?

Something worth noting, is that old world projects usually require 35 fragments for common projects and have a maximum of one rune slot.
While the 300+ skill sites provide common projects that usually require 45 fragments and have a minimum of one rune slot and a maximum of two.
Easily allowing one to level faster with a good deal of luck and/or resources.

Comment by sandyra

WoD is coming! Once the new expansion is live, any changes affecting this post will be added as soon as said change is identified. Feel free to throw in your two copper's worth and I'll update this post accordingly if applicable.

Seeking to complete a newly unlocked rare artifact? Then this post is for you!

While I may not have solved all archaeological rares, especially now that Mists of Pandaria has arrived, after hundreds of hours dedicated to the cause I can say this - there is a method to the madness! And I say madness because archaeology is one profession that should not be taken lightly. Get ready to dig... Lots.

Archaeologically speaking, the Night Elves thoroughly dominate Kalimdor, Dwarves and Trolls the Eastern Kingdoms, and Fossils neatly scattered across both. Outlands are only for the Orcs and Draenei archaeological finds. While Northrend is proving most interesting with Night Elvish and Troll Fragments popping up in addition to the expected Nerubian and Vrykul Fragments. For anything Tol'Vir, it's all in Uldum and Uldum alone. Unfortunately, dig site spawn locations in Uldum share the same continent as Kalimdor - maximum total of four. This means you're gonna have to keep digging Fossil & Night Elf Frags (among others) all over Kalimdor in order to possibly have the Uldum dig sites spawn. Mogu and Pandaren Fragments currently appear all throughout... you guessed it - Pandaria! Stay tuned for more!

For those of you seeking dig site locations and available rares for each race, see below.

MOGU

There are two rare Mogu artifacts:

Anatomical Dummy requiring 180 fragments with 3x Mogu Statue Piece sockets
Quilen Statuette requiring 180 fragments with 3x Mogu Statue Piece sockets

Click on the link for detailed dig site locations - Mogu Archaeology Fragments

PANDAREN

There are two rare Pandaren artifacts:

Spear of Xuen requiring 180 fragments with 3x Pandaren Pottery Shard sockets
Umbrella of Chi-Ji requiring 180 fragments with 3x Pandaren Pottery Shard sockets

Click on the link for detailed dig site locations - Pandaren Archaeology Fragments

TOL'VIR

There are six rare Tol'vir artifacts:

Pendant of the Scarab Storm requiring 150 fragments with 3x Tol'vir Hieroglyphic sockets
Ring of the Boy Emperor requiring 150 fragments with 3x Tol'vir Hieroglyphic sockets
Staff of Ammunae requiring 150 fragments with 3x Tol'vir Hieroglyphic sockets
Crawling Claw requiring 150 fragments with 3x Tol'vir Hieroglyphic sockets
Scimitar of the Sirocco requiring 150 fragments with 3x Tol'vir Hieroglyphic sockets
Scepter of Azj'Aqir requiring 150 fragments with 3x Tol'vir Hieroglyphic sockets

There is also one common artifact that alchemists will eagerly hunt for, as it has a chance of containing Recipe: Vial of the Sands:

Canopic Jar requiring 45 fragments with 2x Tol'vir Hieroglyphic sockets

Click on the link for detailed dig site locations - Tol'vir Archaeology Fragments

NIGHT ELF

There are seven rare Night Elf artifacts:

Bones of Transformation requiring 150 fragments with 3x Highborne Scroll sockets
Tyrande's Favorite Doll requiring 150 fragments with 3x Highborne Scroll sockets
Wisp Amulet requiring 150 fragments with 3x Highborne Scroll sockets
Queen Azshara's Dressing Gown requiring 100 fragments with 3x Highborne Scroll sockets
Druid and Priest Statue Set requiring 100 fragments with 3x Highborne Scroll sockets
Highborne Soul Mirror requiring 100 fragments with 3x Highborne Scroll sockets
Kaldorei Wind Chimes requiring 98 fragments with 3x Highborne Scroll sockets

Click on the link for detailed dig site locations - Night Elf Archaeology Fragments

TROLL

There are three rare Troll artifacts:

Zin'rokh, Destroyer of Worlds requiring 150 fragments with 3x Troll Tablet sockets
Haunted War Drum requiring 100 fragments with 3x Troll Tablet sockets
Voodoo Figurine requiring 100 fragments with 3x Troll Tablet sockets

Click on the link for detailed dig site locations - Troll Archaeology Fragments

FOSSIL

There are five rare Fossil artifacts:

Extinct Turtle Shell requiring 150 fragments
Fossilized Raptor requiring 100 fragments
Pterrordax Hatchling requiring 120 fragments
Ancient Amber requiring 100 fragments
Fossilized Hatchling requiring 85 fragments

Note: There are NO keystones available for Fossil archaeological solves

Click on the link for detailed dig site locations - Fossil Archaeology Fragments

DWARF

There are four rare Dwarf artifacts:

Staff of Sorcerer-Thane Thaurissan requiring 150 fragments with 3x Dwarf Rune Stone sockets
The Innkeeper's Daughter requiring 150 fragments with 3x Dwarf Rune Stone sockets
Clockwork Gnome requiring 100 fragments with 3x Dwarf Rune Stone sockets
Chalice of the Mountain Kings requiring 100 fragments with 3x Dwarf Rune Stone sockets

Click on the link for detailed dig site locations - Dwarf Archaeology Fragments

DRAENEI

There are two rare Draenei artifacts:

The Last Relic of Argus requiring 130 fragments with 3x Draenei Tome sockets
Arrival of the Naaru requiring 124 fragments with 3x Draenei Tome sockets

Click on the link for detailed dig site locations - Draenei Archaeology Fragments

ORC

There is only one rare Orc artifact:

Headdress of the First Shaman requiring 130 fragments with 3x Orc Blood Text sockets

Click on the link for detailed dig site locations - Orc Archaeology Fragments

Macro for all archaeological solves:

/run print("Total artifacts"); for x=1,12 do local c=GetNumArtifactsByRace(x); local a =0; for y=1,c do local t = select(9, GetArtifactInfoByRace(x, y)); a=a+t;end local rn = GetArchaeologyRaceInfo(x); if( c > 1 ) then print(rn .. ": " .. a); end end

This will produce a list like this:

Total artifacts
Dwarf: 44
Draenei: 11
Fossil: 64
Night Elf: 179
Nerubian: 4
Orc: 12
Tol'vir: 128
Troll: 87
Vrykul: 8
Pandaren: 25
Mogu: 26

Comment by karlww

I can't wait til I find a series of small walls!

Comment by GordianCOA

It is like Zoo Tycoon 2 - Dinosaur Expansion. Finding Fossils around the zoo to create the puzzle and be able to produce Dinosaurs for your zoo by their DNA.

Comment by Dreadmight

Does anyone know what the final icon is for on your Archaeology page? The one with the pack and digging tools? I'm nearing the 525 mark and haven't figured out what it's for.

Comment by fieryneko

Pro tip: Don't turn in any artifacts until you're at least 100 skill level. You'll see why later.

Comment by BuRYGnome

Just as notice. Getting 3-6 parts of artifact with survey was implemented in 15.12.2010 hotfix. Before it was 3x each survey after 75 skill.

Also, Canopic Jars are no longer poor quality and now show as white (standard) items. Those are Tol'vir items that might contain "Recipe: Vial of the Sands" for alchemist. This recipe craft a mount which also was made Bind on Equip from on Pickup in this hotfix.

Comment by Sibrina

Findings can be located on stone structures, such as at sets of ruins at times. Don't pass over them assuming you can't dig through solid rock or quartz. :)

Comment by Sunlancer

I was leveling my alt's archaeology after hotfix, and it seems from the very beginning Survey is already possible to dig up 2 to 4 fragments. Also I've come across to have three digs in a roll at the same point. Never happened for my main, so I guess that's just possible but with very small chance.

Edit: At 75 it's 3 to 5 fragments.

Comment by Sunlancer

I would recommend to level your 80 alts' archaeology as well if you like me have multiple 80s and if you are looking forward to specific rare item(for example, the troll sword).

After 450 the dig sites may show up in annoying place in the Eastern Kingdom, i.e. Vashj'ir.

Leveling your 80 alts has several benefits:
1. It helps to consume your alt's rest bonus.
2. The weapon is bind to account, obviously.
3. Save Keystone for your main.
4. You can only Solve specific race(like troll) and keep below 450 easily.
5. While digging you can also discover new flight points in Azeroth for your alts.

Comment by dragunknight92

After digging up a fragment & looting it, be sure to Survey ontop of the spot where you just looted. several times I have come across another fragment "buried" directly beneath so to speak.

Comment by weirdunclebob

I couldn't see it mentioned anywhere so I have to ask the question. Once I've made an item - say the Atal'ai Sceptre - it's recorded in my log as having been made, I have an actual item in my bag and the title's in grey letters. Can I get rid of the item or do I need to keep that, too? I've only received items with grey titles so far but I don't want to throw away something I might need!

Comment by Jerakin

Troll Archaeology Fragments can also be obtained in Northrend. In Zul'Drak for example.

Night Elf Archaeology Fragments can also be obtained in Northrend. In Crystalsong Forest for example.

Comment by Joodass

I don't know if this has been mentioned before and I am aware I stand the risk to be downgraded but.....

I couldn't find the 'spade' icons on my map the other day and really got confused about it......

There is a tick box on the bottom right hand side of your world map next to the 'Show quest Objectives'. Ensure this is ticked and you shouyld then be able to see the icons again.

Comment by karlww

an addon could make triangulation more popular, but it's unlikely we'll see one soon.ArcheoTriangle.

Comment by mozhils

I stopped gaining skillups from digging after I reached 80.

Correction - now it`s one skilpoint per site and not per dig anymore.

Comment by datundra

Archaeology Fragment Checklist:

Looked for some time now for a checklist type page, but never did find a quick and easy "IN ONE PLACE" for this info, so made my own. You are welcome to check it out. And of course, if I made some errors, let me know, I'll try my best to keep it up to date.

Checklist

Datundra

Comment by GibbleFenwick

By Kalhan 15 days ago (Patch 4.0.3)
xp gained while digging depends on your guild level

No it doesn't doesn't depend on guild level.
XP depends on your level, and is affected by the Fast Track guild Perk.
XP is also affected by by rested bonus.

Comment by gamedotwow

Some help for leveling Archaeology: Aprentice - Master (1-300) in 14 hours
(Please note that this guide is for players who are at least level 70 and will be very difficult for those under level 68)

What's needed:
- Have at least 600g on hand
- Have Artisan Flying (280% Flight Speed)
- Be ready to fight opposing faction members

Getting started:
- Start in Kalimdor. Locate all dig sites. There will be four available at a time, and once you dig 3 times in one, another will appear in a random area in that same continent.
- DO NOT SOLVE ANY PROJECTS! It may be tempting, but don't do it yet, you'll see why later.
- Level your Archaeology through Apprentice and get it between skill levels 90 and 100 at Journeyman level.
- Once at level 90 - 100, stand right in front of the Orgrimmar/Stormwind Archaeology trainer and solve projects JUST UNTIL level 125.
- Purchase Expert level.
- Finish the rest of your projects. Each one will grant you +5 skill level, and rares award +5 to +20 =D
- You should now be close to 180 or even up to 190 (I was at 193 at this point)
- Continue to farm only in Kalimdor, and gain enough fragments until you know you'll achieve the minimum 200 skill level.
- Go to the trainer again and solve the projects until you are able to purchase Artisan Archaeology from your trainer.
- Purchase Artisan Archaeology and head out once again.
- Farm in Kalimdor and focus on Troll and Fossil fragments, as they yield the most beneficial projects.
- Switch between Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor as you see fit until you find enough fragments to level your skill up to 300.
- Go to your trainer, solve projects ONLY UNTIL 275.
- Purchase Master Archaeology, and continue to solve projects until level 300 is reached.

Congratulations! You can now extend your Archaeological studies to Outland! After level 300, you now must work to reaching level 525, but with this schedule, you'll make it in no time at all.

I recommend this mod, it helped me reach level 300 Archaeology in (13 hrs 55 min @ LVL 83):

http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/archy.aspx

*I do NOT own this mod, I simply am advertising it for free :-)

Comment by Ooglepants

I can confirm, without ANY guild xp, your RESTED XP from 84-85:
27.6K (27,600). Without rested, you would get 13.8K.

This is also good with herbalism and mining, where you get between 5500 and 11K per node. If only they let you get XP for fishin' and cookin'.

Comment by Marcelpriest

Some Archaeology-leveling hints that have been mentioned elsewhere, but should be on the first page so new archaeologists will see them.

- Don't solve any artifacts until you reach 50 skill. Gain your skill ups only through digging until 50, when digging stops giving skill points. Then use all your accumulated fragments at once to level more efficiently.

- Unless the only rewards you want from Archaeology are the fossil rares avoid fossil dig sites whenever you can. Fossil dig sites will continue spawning after you have made all the fossil items, and as you level you will eventually be drowning in fossil fragments. So the only time you should visit a fossil dig site is when you need to clear it off your map so another site will spawn - you will get plenty of fossil fragments this way in time. Since more fossil rares have been added, I don't think this advice applies anymore. Of course, the same logic can be applied to any race if you're not interested in discovering any more of their artifacts for whatever reason.

- If there's one particular item you desperately want, find out what skill is required to discover it and save fragments from that race until you reach the skill level at which you can discover it. (Edit: Note that there is now a cap at 200 fragments. It still makes sense to save up those fragments, but go ahead and solve your artifacts whenever you're about to reach the cap, or the fragments will only go to waste.) For example, say you want Tyrande's Favorite Doll, a rare Night Elf find which can be discovered after 450 skill. While leveling, dig all the available Night Elf digsites, but level up by completing artifacts for other races until you reach 450. Then complete your Night Elf artifacts. This is likely to save you digging in the long run, as you are not wasting your Night Elf fragments before they could potentially be used to discover Tyrande's Favorite Doll.

- That said, be aware that Archaeology is extremely RNG-based and grindy; try not to drive yourself insane by getting obsessed with that one rare item. Don't plan your gear set around Archaeology finds. They are called rares for a reason.

- Addons: Archy is useful for helping you keep track of your progress and figure out which dig sites to visit next. I love the option of double-right-clicking on the screen to survey. ~~Broken as of 20 Feb, here is the bugfix~~. Archaeology Helper doesn't do a lot else but is brilliant at narrowing down where to survey (use it with GatherMate 2).

- The best piece of advice I can give: Auto-fly from one dig site to another while you read a book or alt-tab out to Wowhead. (Num Lock is usually the auto-run toggle.) Lots of people are complaining about the travel time; it feels like a plus to me because I get a lot of reading done. In any case, minimising the amount of time staring at your screen will make Archaeology feel a lot less mind-numbing.

Comment by Ernixaerna

While enjoying Archaeology I have written a guide for my guild. Several people have suggested publishing it here, so:

Here it is.

It contains help with starting up, leveling, finding items, completing the achievements and more.

I hope it is of help to you on your artifact finding ventures.

Comment by modicumofrespite

Not sure why, but the Eastern Kingdoms are way easier to fly due to higher and more consistent altitude limits. In Kalmidor the upper limit is lower than the treetops in many cases. Setting a course and alt-tabbing out is problematic in Kalmidor, because either the upper limit halts progress or some obstruction like a tree or a zone-wall does. Every Kalmidor zone seems to have a wildly different height limit, so constant attention to pathing is required.

Comment by Nebu7777

Tip: Use the Dalaran Ring of The Kirin Tor to teleport to Dalaran. Then use the Dalaran portal to get to the Caverns of time. That helps you get to the Tol'Vir items or items in the lower half of Kalimdor very quickly.

Also be sure to set your hearthstone at Stormwind/Orgrimmar and then unlock and use the portals to get to Hyjal, Twilight Highlands, and Uldum to quickly get to northern Kalimdor. Note: You have to do some quests before these portals open.

Gnomish Engineers can craft two portals that can take them to Gadgetzan (Ultrasafe Transporter: Gadgetzan Ultrasafe Transporter: Gadgetzan) or Blade's Edge Mountains (Outland Ultrasafe Transporter: Toshley's Station). Another Portal can be created to many places in Northrend (Wormhole Generator: Northrend). These save a lot of time.

Comment by DrakusHG

Just curious if anyone has run into this yet, and if so, if it is actually related to the Archaeology profession?

Twice now I have been working on rare artifact completions, and twice now, at two separate locations (both troll dig sites) after I picked up a set of fragments, I had a voice play across my speakers. It says, "You will die".

I had another voice over happen at a a dwarf ruin, but I could not make out what it said, due to some unfortunate background noise drowning it out.

Can anyone else confirm they have heard anything similar while working on Archaeology? I am at 525 and have solved 7 rare artifacts at the time of this posting. The first time I heard the voice was after I was 525 and had solved 6 rare artifacts.

Update: Received a strange voice again stating "You will die." This time while picking up a keystone from a dig site. Troll. Confirmed with a guild mate that he also is receiving voice-overs when picking up keystones.

Edit: Downgraded? I don't understand. This is a legitimate question. This specific topic has not even been broached on this item as far as I can tell.

Comment by BasicPhreak

Here is a how-to guide for people who are confused how to do this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaaU98Gz87Y

Comment by atributz

With the addon Archy unable to determine a more precise mechanics of excavation.

If the artifact is located in:

5 yards or less - the artifact is dug;
6-40 yards - light green, deviation of ±10°;
41-80 yards - light yellow, deviation of ±20°;
more than 80 yards - light red, deviation of ±45°;

Keep in mind that the game considers the distance in 3D coordinates (Archy in 2D, so when you use add-on should take into account the roughness of Locality).
Size of location really does not affect on the light bulb.

Comment by hotdogee

7 new Tol'vir digsites were added in patch 4.0.6:
River Delta Digsite
Cursed Landing Digsite
Keset Pass Digsite
Akhenet Fields Digsite
Obelisk of the Stars Digsite
Sahket Wastes Digsite
Schnottz's Landing

There is now a total of 69 digsites in Kalimdor with 16 of them in Uldum.
This mean that with no current digsites in Uldum you have a 16/66 ~ 24.24% (69-3 because 3 digsites is taken, and the 4th you're digging in can spawn again at the same place) chance to get a spawn in Uldum, a major buff from the previous 9/59 ~ 15.25%
Clearing all 4 sites you have a 67% chance of spawning a Tol'vir digsite.

Comment by Jwang

I am the bone of my pick
Luck is my god and patience is my virtue
I have solved over a thousand projects
Unknown to dungeons nor known to raids
Having withstood madness to follow the pointer
Yet these hands will never hold epics
So as I pray...
UNLIMITED ARCHAEOLOGY WORKS

Comment by jahf

Well, after 92 commons finds, 14 rare finds, and innumerable duplicates all I can say is:

Night Elves were some serious litterbugs.

Comment by Nabikula

The thing about High/Blood Elven culture is that it seems to be fairly the same since the Highborne. They were still a hereditary monarchy until very, very recently. It's more of a misnomer to call the artifacts Night Elf artifacts, as they still tell important stories of all elves.

You also have to remember that the majority of elves, with the exception of the Shen'dralar, alive today were alive or just a generation or two behind when these artifacts would have held some significance to their cultures due to Nordrasil/Sunwell. (Tyrande was around at the time of the sundering and Kael'thas was the grandson of the leader of the Highborne that were exiled by Malfurion.) Meaning a lot of these artifacts are from times in the living memory of the elves.

And yes, I'm aware that there is some question as to whether the Sunwell actually granted immortality. My point is that all elves are usually extremely long lived and what can be discovered about their culture from archaeology can be answered by simply asking an elf who was there or who is just a generation or two behind.

It would be more interesting to see human and gnome artifacts. Yes humans descended from Vyrkul and gnomes were created along side the Earthen (dwarven anscestors), but both races don't have nearly the life span most elves seem to. Meaning that there is a much bigger possibility of learning something not currently known about both peoples.

Or why are there only one type of Trolly aritfacts? Yes they started out as one empire, but have since split into many, many different empires/tribes/etc, thanks to the expansion of the elves, proliferation of the earthen and possibly the tauren.

My long winded point is this: While the elves have diverged culturally with each other, for them it has only been a couple of generations, and in some cases, within their lifetime. It makes sense that the artifacts aren't split yet. It would be more reasonable to a split between Vyrkul/Human aritfacts, Dwarven/Gnomish, or different Troll tribes.

Comment by Evilry

Tips for painful repeated "Red" indicators:

If you get your first dig a red, then don't mount and move. Simply dig few more at that same spot.
You will see the indicator direction changes. It effectively reduces the target area of the next stop.
Once you are confidence of your next move, mount and go. You will usually get it close.

Comment by Yakuza9

Can someone tell me what is the last freaking icon on the archaeology profession window! the one at the bottom that kinda looks like on of those mechanical scarecrows! :O?

Comment by pedroso

I can´t learn the skill!

I´m new at the game and I don´t have the new expansion yet. Do I need the expansion to use this skill?

Comment by George14

Archaeology will be used to summon random and optional bosses in Zul'Gurub.
http://www.wowhead.com/guide=4.1&pve

Comment by Swordy

Outlands seems like an easier grind when it's available. There are only two races, and everything found can use at least 2 keystones. The downside is that the rares take a lot more digs to complete, while only allowing the usual cap of 3 keystones.

Comment by jokerdonny

Seven more rare artifacts to be added in 4.1.

Comment by karioth

I'm pretty sure that archaeology has already claimed more souls than Frostmourne.

Comment by JoyCrux

Anyone wondering what the new Archy items are for 4.1 I've made a list (please confirm if you can, thanks):

Vrykul:
Vrykul Drinking Horn - makes you bigger *possibly drunk* with LK style helm for about 10 mins.

Troll:
Haunted War Drum - not sure *possibly bugged
Voodoo Figurine - pet

Fossil:
Ancient Amber - encases you in amber
Pterrordax Hatchling - pet
Extinct Turtle Shell - lvl 85 BoA shield

Comment by TechDeck

If Cold Blood is active while you survey, your pick will look frostier.

Comment by Riverider

My method for making Archaelogy go a bit faster (in addition to other comments already posted here)...I'm a level 85 mage at around 200 skill at Archaeology now....

1. Create key bindings for "Survey" and for summoning your flying mount - it saves a lot of time over having to mouse over and click a button. I have a separate action bar for non-combat where I put these. I also have a few combat keys in case a mob attacks me. Initially, the mobs are low level so I typically ignore them, even if they are attacked me, as long as the don't interrupt my surveying. When I find the artifact, i will zap any that are still on me.

2. After you survey, run in the direction on of the telescope (duh!). Technique: If you point the camera straight down and zoom out, I find it makes it easier to imagine the staight line the I should run along. Alternatively, try to line up the barrel of the telescope with your character (i.e. if you were looking through the telescope, you would be looking at your character's back) to ensure you run in the right direction. It is not super-important to be exact, I have found this to be one of those time saving things since it saves on the number of surveys I do. It will seem like this takes more time at first but after you practice you will be able to line it up very quickly.

3. If the survey is green - run for a "relaxed" count of 4 in your head. This is usually enought to get me right to the artifact if I line up properly. If I get another green, I will run for 3 seconds, then 2. Since everyone counts at a different speed you'll need to figure out what works best for you.

4. If it is yellow - run for a count of 8 (or twice what you do for green). If you run in a wall during this time, just stop and survey again (to judge the direction) and use your summon mount hotkey (from step 1) to fly over the wall in the right direction. Just land on the other side of the wall and survey again. Same thing if you reach the bottom of a cliff wall. If there is an obstacle you can run around, do that and survey again on the other side.

5. If it is red - run for a count of 10 (2 and half times what you do for green). The direction indicator for red has some error in it so isn't worth running too far before surveying again. If you reach an obstacle, follow the same technique as step 4. (As a mage I also Blink here)

Other things worth repeating:
- Don't solve anything until you are no longer getting skill points for find artifacts
- Save the artifacts for the race that you really want the reward for - but as someone else noted, there is a cap of 200.
- Someone else suggested avoiding fossil digsites. I would say don't go out of your way for them but if they are nearby go ahead and use them - you still get a skill-up for solving fossil fragments. Once you get closer to being skill-capped I imagine it makes less sense to solve fossil
- Use up the "keystones" to get the skill-up - they count as 12 fragments. I don't see any reason to save them up.
- Also, fossils don't seem have a "keystone" fragment so that's another reason why fossil digsites aren't as beneficial as racial digsites.

Comment by Liukus

In Zul'Gurub - For the Edge of Madness bosses to be summoned you need a "High Level of Archaeology". The Archaeology skill required to summon the boss is only 225. Confirmed by being 224 and not being able to, solved an artifact and was 229 and able to. Blizzard likes to use increments of no less than 5 for their requirements. Enjoy getting the 225 archaeology to get some easy loot.

Comment by Lazziruss

Note that patch 4.1 has added daily quests for Archaeology; these quests can be found in each of the Cataclysm 5-man dungeons. Because these quests require you to redeem 3 Key Stones from each of the races, it has become wise to save all of your Key Stones (such as the Highborne Scroll), rather than using them to solve artifacts (unless of course you are anxious and willing to use up your Key Stones to solve a rare artifact).

Comment by Gameeommy

If a race is pulsating in the Archeology tab, it means that you have enough fragments to complete an artifact. It's just there to get your attention.

Comment by cawcaw

Do rare items have priorities? All I have left to complete are the 359 BoAs. I made all the way to the Professor title and beyond and still not a single useful item.

Comment by Ashkallon

I don't know if this is an intentional or stealth change, but the Survey Skill seems to cap out at FIFTY now, not 100. I've been at 50 for over twenty surveys and not a single level up has happened in that time.

So, the advice that tell you to continue to Survey until you get to 100 need to be modified (sadly) to include the fact that it caps out at 50. My Archaeology Skill was at 50/150 the whole time, so unless it's a Skill bug (which is doubtful) we can conclude that it's time to start solving!

Comment by Wordsmith

Stand around and watch for a while and you'll see him and his students acting out a familiar scene from Raiders of the Lost Arc!

No. Not "Raiders." His lecture comes from the near-beginning of "The Last Crusade."
I'm just waiting for an "'X' marks the spot" line to pop up somewhere in WoW.
Below is taken from http://www.scifiscripts.com/scripts/Indiana3.txt with the overlaps between movie and WoW bolded.

INDY (V.O.)
Archaeology is...

INDY
...the search for fact. Not truth.
If it's truth you're interested in,
Doctor Tyree's Philosophy class is
right down the hall.

Laughter.

INDY
So forget any ideas you've got about
lost cities, exotic travel, and
digging up the world. You do not
follow maps to buried treasure and
"X" never, ever, marks the spot.

MARCUS BRODY approaches Indy's classroom. He peers through
the window in the door to see Indy completing his lecture.

INDY
Seventy percent of all archaeology
is done in the library. Research.
Reading.
INT. LECTURE HALL - DAY

Brody enters the lecture hall and stands at the rear of the
room.

INDY
We cannot afford to take mythology
at face value.

The BELL RINGS. Indy stands at his desk as students begin to
disperse. A pretty coed puts a note on the desk.

INDY
Next week: "Egyptology." Starting
with the excavation of Naukratis by
Blinders Petrie in 1885. I will be
in my office if anybody's got any
problems for the next hour and a
half.

Brody approaches as the last of the students leaves the
lecture hall.

Comment by Artiel

If you can't fly, this profession will suck for you, imo. A lot of traveling and moving back and forth. Also use your hearthstone as an advantage.

Comment by jd234

Now that we have all been doing Arch for a while, you have probably reached the point where you have solved all the artifacts for some of the common races (e.g. Elf and Troll). However, if you are like me you are probably still farming for rarer races (e.g. fossil or Tol'vir) meaning you still have to collect other fragments that you don't need in order to clear the trash sites.

I would suggest you stop solving artifacts from the races that you have completed. Just collect the fragments as you happen upon them, and then if blizz adds more artifacts in a future patch you will be able to solve many quickly. Note that there is a cap of 200 fragments, so solve once and a while, but try to keep ~200.

Comment by Amystil

I've maxed out archaeology (525) and still grinding it (completionist obcessed - I must make one of every item from every race at least once! lol). I'm chasing Tol'vir fragments the most at the moment.

I have discovered a little flight-time efficient method. I start at the northern most digsite in Kalimdor, dig it out regardless of race, then move to the next closest one, rinse and repeat heading south. Eventually the newly spawning dig sites start moving south with only an occasional one or two popping up north again, so I whizz back and get them and drive them south as well. Eventually everything is dig out and all 4 of the dig sites are in the same place = Uldum.

I have dug out the 4 Uldum sites to find 1 more spawned there as a result, so it is possible to get 5 sites to dig there in a row.

I've found this also works with the other continents but to a lesser degree, as to drive them all into the one spot isn't quite as flight efficient, but it does still work somewhat.
For the most part I'm currently now only digging on the other continents as an occasional thing when I'm in the area doing something else anyway; as a short detour to get a dig site done isn't grindy at all but it's still helping gradually make the other race's items.

Comment by SatanClaws

Standard addons suggested for arch would be:
Gathermage2 + Gathermate2 arch DB
Archaeology Helper

I can not stress the need for these add ons enough.
The time I saved is incalculable.
Incredibly easy to install and get up and running.

I would also suggest to not save any tokens for any one particular item as you are leveling the skill.
If you get them now or during a rare, it really does not matter. They all carry over and count toward your next project.
You are simply wasting time by holding on to them.

Comment by ozzi191

I would like to have a Fossil Dragon Flying Mount that still has some hide/scales left but so the bones are still visible so it looks really battle damage and old, Fossil Proto Drake or Ancient Fossil Drake would be a good name :D

Comment by GWARslave

FYI maxing out your total fragment count does NOT stop that race's dig area from showing up. I thought I'd give it a shot since I have all commons/rares in a few races, so thought maybe maxing out the fragments would remove it from the rotation. All it does is the obvious, "I can't carry anymore.".

Comment by maniam

How do I start archaeology. Do I need a expansion. which expansion do I need.The archaeology trainer is blank when I try to train? I'm frustrated spending more time on forums then actual game play.What order to I install the expansion.Why don't they just advertise their expansions in game?In what order do I need to install expansions? I don't blame my friend for quitting this game. Too much time spent looking for answers.

Comment by Rylana101

Archaeology, it doesnt cost gold, it costs your sanity! TM.

Edit: Downvote some, really? You know traveling up and down a zone dozens of times eventually drives you mad. Just look at Yogg-Saron! He used to be an archaeologist.

Comment by treadwise

Archaeology is by far the coolest proffesion in wow. I currently have 2 commons left and 14 rares to go. Sanity is intact and i have a bunch of neat items that do little or nothing and a few items that are moderately usefull for characters i am leveling. I expect wow will be adding more items (i hope) with future expansions to keep this a fun aspect of the game.

Comment by rayquaza11

Undoubtably, the best race/class combo for this profession is a Dwarven Paladin.

Comment by Rezler

i like it but you will need a fast mount else it's gets boring as hell but you get like epic stuff for all lvls

Comment by miemie

I'm an alchemist going after the Recipe: Vial of the Sands, hence Tol'vir, hence Kalimdor.

Naturally, Uldum sites are relatively rare pops, and are my happy, hopeful moments when they do.

On the contrary, Desolace seems to favor me the most, somehow, with Night Elf sites there coming up at a much, much higher rate than anywhere else.

Yet, that zone is soooo out of the way from my Stormwind City home, though I can readily teleport to Uldum or Mount Hyjal.

Measuring from the map on my screen, to Karnum's Glade in the middle of Desolace, is 9 cm from Ramkahen, or 8.5 cm from Nordrassil, both demanding attentive piloting through altitudes high and low.

Occasionally, if I find a helpful mage, it is a not-much-shorter 7 cm from Theramore Isle, but quite an easier flight.

Comment by Elares

Archaeology was a real fun profession at the start but now I find difficulty to come up with the needed motivation to chase the artifacts.

First of all when you compare it with secondary professions (I'm excluding riding naturally) it is the only one which you can't create useful items and/or can't generate money. I think we definitely need more BoE rare/epic items which can either usable or at least good for enchantment. And also some more unique items that can be used for transmog for example.

Dungeon archaeology quests are good idea but if they can developed they would be real fun to chase. For example besides the spell buff you'll get if there would be a drop chance of an unique item with the similar spell on it which can be usable in all dungeons would be nice.

Comment by cmarrable

Hello I am a lvl 70 Blood Elf, Hoarde, and pretty new to wow, for some reason every arch trainer I go to has nothing for me to learn, have I not done something in order to access this profession....please help....thank you

Comment by andru360

Total Artifacts:
Dwarf: 430
Draenei: 22
Fossil 352
Night Elf: 576
Nerubian: 31
Orc: 21
Tol´vir: 230
Troll: 528
Vrykul: 18

Total Rares
Dwarf: 3
Draenei: 2 (all)
Fossil: 5 (all)
Night Elf: 7 (all)
Nerubian 2 (all)
Orc : 1 (all)
Tol´vir: 5
Troll: 2
Vrykul 1

So far im pretty happy :)

Comment by cmak68

today I got a Tol'vir rare called Mummified Monkey Paw. doesn't show on wowhead and takes 150 fragments. I am very curious to see what it is.

Comment by djdelbert

can someone tel me what the last fragment is? the guy with the hat?

Comment by ranutso

Just one more tip. As with any disc, the shortest distance between any point is from the center of the disc. I know the dig sites are not discs, but they're pretty close. So every time you land on a new dig site, go straight to the middle of it. There is a very big chance you get a yellow or green right on your first survey. That will depend on the area's size, of course. Some large dig sites, such as the ones in Tanaris, may get you a red one, but go in that direction and you'll find a yellow.

Comment by tbrasher

level 20 rogue dwarf, want archaeology as secondary, but evertime i go to ironforge and the archaeology trainer nothing happens................any help appreciated, new at this

Comment by LoveHunters

For rare items that are account-bound, is it possible to obtain more than one these?

Thanks!

Comment by Tontons

Archaeology in MoP's Beta

Rules
That might be for testing purposes but currently we get 6 digs per digsite (up from 3) with 5-9 fragments per dig (if you're level 525 archaeologist). I am currently lvl 534 archaeologist and have no idea if one gets more fragments with lvl 600 archaeology.

Skillups
If you were hoping for an easy Realm First! - seems that ain't gonna happen the way you planned. Old common artifacts give no skillup (not all races tested, but Tol'vir is tested). Don't know if old rare artifacts give any skillup. Common pandaren artifacts give only 3 skill points per artifact. I haven't checked any rare artifacts here either.

Races
We've got a new race - Pandaren and 2 more races are currently blank (gray) for me making it a total of 12 races.

I currently see 3 digsites in Pandaria (not 4 like in other continents), all in The Jade Forest (I suppose for testing, but maybe it's tied to some levelling or just coincidence).

All fragments I have gotten this far are Pandaren. All three of their artifacts needed 50 fragments each and vendored for 1 gold each. My speculation is that prices are to be changed, but 50 fragments per common artifact might be the policy for common Pandaren artifacts. The artifacts have elaborate texts and normal names and it makes me believe they are almost done (icons surely aren't made yet).

Comment by christiphor

What is the last icon for? And before you say it, no it is not for the Pandaren.

Comment by Arjayemm

I may have a possible answer to the queries about what 1 of the additional 2 icons /races may be. I just got attacked in "The Arboretum" whilst doing some Pandaren archaeology by an Ancient Haunt elemental and it dropped a Mogu fragment. On checking my archaeology tab the last icon had lit up as Mogu so it seems that at least for the beta this is the last icon. It could be that these are only going to drop as loot rather than being discovered by the usual archaeology method. Or it may be that i just haven't been given a Mogu area to survey yet - I'll update when i get more info. Update- I've just had my first Mogu area to survey around "Terrace of Ten Thunders" so it seems like these fragments can be dug up or potentially drop from some mobs - only had 1 common Mogu project so far. Update- the statues in Mogu and possibly the stones in Pandaren survey areas can spawn the Ancient Spawn mobs that drop Mogu fragments.

Comment by Arjayemm

Comment by d3athraz0r

Certainly a fun profession to pass your time with since fishing only brings fish and first aid only brings ...well brings nothing . It's even more fun farming the fragments with a mage alt since you can teleport anywhere on the map without having to wait for boats or ask for portals around , makes it so much easier.
Imo , there should have been more items on the list , the 359s are not bad as far as I am concerned but since most of us rush straight to rHoT to get the "latest fashion' these items are pretty much useless after the 3rd or 4th run that you have already got your hands on a 2handed/1handed blade already.
Would be nice implementing new items to the list of things you can dig, would be a primary-non-primary profession for many of us having fun gathering frags.
Let's hope they do add new things in the near future !

Comment by Iztac

How a druid does it. Moo.

RED

Turn into a bird, fly and count to three.

YELLOW

Run 13 Tauren-sized paces.

GREEN

Run 5 Tauren-sized paces.

Comment by cpetrusaitis

Are you only able to do Archaelogy if you have Cata?

Comment by Unstopebble

I think that Archaeology is the most useful secondary profession in the game

Also I think it is easier to do when you get a flying mount because you can get to your Archaeology sites faster.

Comment by ofhtelight

Any plans for arch epics in Pandaria, it would be kind of disappointing if Arch didn't give cool stuff like it did in Cata... i leveled it on alot of my toons just for the reason that it would give them cool stuff.

Comment by madkaugh

If you do Darkmoon Faire, the monthly Archaeology quest Fun for the Little Ones requires 15 fossil fragments. For this turn in, you get 5 Archaeology skill (and other rewards).

In terms of skill up value, this is cheap, about half of making a typical common for the same 5 skill-ups, and ...
When commons no longer skill you up, this will still skill you up.
It is always 15 fossil fragments, so it is convenient to keep 15 fossil fragments unused and available when Darkmoon Faire gets near, ready to turn in.

You are offered this quest when you reach 75 Archaeology skill.

Comment by Arjayemm

I'm curious whether anyone else has noticed the same pattern with archaeology in Northrend - namely a huge imbalance between the sites coming up for the races. Given that Night Elf and Troll sites already have Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms to spawn in, you would expect that the "Northrend only" races (Vrykul/Nerubian) would tend to spawn more often from what I assume is a random generator. In fact the opposite seems to be true - I have spent literally days shuttling around the same 5/6 Night Elf/Troll sites waiting for the other races to spawn. Maybe I'm just UNBELIEVABLY unlucky (hmmmm) or maybe someone needs to go and hit the machine a thump as it seems to be stuck in the same groove. A bit more balance would seem to be called for .

Comment by madkaugh

If you have the Inscription skill, your Minor Inscription Research will leave you with a stack of Scroll of Recall, which teleport you unreliably past level 40. This is a useful feature for Archaeology. You can every so often (20 minute cooldown) teleport to a somewhat random location (there are only a few targets of the scroll) and check the zone and nearby zones for new Archaeology sites. (Another beneficial use of the Scroll of Recall is that a high portion of the random teleports will put you in Gadgetzan in Tanaris. If you need a neutral auction house, you have a fair chance it will take you there.)

Comment by Brandonly17

Can anyone tell what the Fragment increase from being a Dwarf is ? Is it a overall higher amount of fragments or just an increased chance at them ?

Comment by OlDog

FYI: required lvl to unlock North Rend was 375 for me, not 350 as listed by wowhead

Comment by MABGamer6407

I do wonder tho. in the Archi page for the races, like Night elf, Dwarf, Tol'var. Theres a Empty looking slot Near the bottom that looks as if a Hat and a pick-axe with other stuff. Any idea How to fill in that slot. Or is that for if you complete every single item or something? I unlocked all the races To dig for.

Comment by SarulaTPG

I just hit 460 archaeology, and everything I've read says I can start in Uldum looking for Tol'vir artifacts at 450, but I don't show any dig sites on my map. I tried turning off all my mods, but it still shows no dig sites in Uldum at all, can anyone help me?

Comment by togahsisoka

I cannot prove this empiracally but if you are trying to get that *last* rare item on a continent where you've completed all the other solves, but you keep getting sites unrelated to that race; try this...

Stop solving the other race items. At least, don't just solve them when you have enough pieces just for that one solve...

This might be a function of WoW trying to "help" too much where it doesn't factor in your desire to find/solve the rare items so that once you've got all the common ones possible on a continent, the new dig sites are spawned to help with *any* race item you are solving where you don't have enough pieces.

I have been trying to get my last dwarf rare to proc, but most of my dig sites were non-dwarf in EK for days. So instead of solving for Nerubian, Nelf, Troll, and Fossil. I let them build up and now I'm getting almost exclusively Dwarf sites. Every once in a while I'll get something else, but where before I was barely getting any dwarf, the change is significant.

So I'm not sure this is the correct hueristic but it has been working for me all day! If you're down to just the rares of one race and having the same prob, give this a whirl, if it doesn't work, you still have all the pieces to solve with, and you were going to farm there anyway, so why not?

Comment by sapnutt

Kk folks just hit proff title on worthless hearthstone"inkeepers daughter" by the way only good for looks cause it uses your reg stone at same time lol! Anywho,wats last icon on your archy tab where you see what you have as far as puzzles to solve? Looks like shovel/hat? Just for looks or something to unlock?

Comment by option37

Total Artifacts:
Dwarf: 430
Draenei: 22
Fossil: 352
Night Elf: 576
Nerubian: 31
Orc: 21
Tol´vir: 230
Troll: 528
Vrykul: 18

Total Rares:
Dwarf: 3
Draenei: 2/2
Fossil: 5/5
Night Elf: 7/7
Nerubian 2/2
Orc : 1/1
Tol´vir: 5
Troll: 2
Vrykul 1

Comment by Antrion

Druids rejoice! you can survey while staying in travel form (or bear form, cat form, or boomkin form) which can help save some time. I recommend using travel form when the light is yellow, flight when it is red, and simply walk if it is a green light. Also, while some finds (especially fossils) will be near the banks of a river, very rarely (if ever) are they actually under water in my experience.

Comment by Isadora

As of patch 5.0.4., all dig sites now yield 6 finds instead of the previous 3.

Comment by Uztak

The new patch included a stealthbuff in Archaeology, instead of 3 digs/site you now get up to 6 digs/site, especially helpful for the farming of the Ultramarine Qiraji Battle Tank Ultramarine Qiraji Battle Tank! ;) /Uz

Comment by Ragedon

Id just like to point out that there is now 3 greyed out races instead of 1, looks like Mists of Pandaria is going to be bringing along 3 new races and this secondary profession wont be going stagnant after all. =D

Comment by Zanno

As of patch 5.0.4 you can now dig 6 times per digsite, getting up to 9 fragments per dig. For a max total of 54 fragments from a single digsite. Making this a lot easier to lv :)

Comment by crovx

With patch 5.0.4, once you have reached 500 skill level, you will only earn 1 skill point (instead of 5 for common and 15 for rare) per project you solve. Regardless of whether it's common, rare, or the fact the the project has been completed before or not.

Project's branch (and difficulty) still doesn't seem to affect amount of skill point you can get. I solved rare Night Elf project and get 504->505, rare Tol'vir project got me 505->506. However it's been reported that it's possible that you may not get skill up at all when solving common project. Haven't happened to me yet, it could be a bug.

Comment by Behrad0

did , they add new mount in mop ?

Comment by halflive

i'm now lvl 520 with archeology and dont get any skill point now for lvl up ! i was 515 did the profesion quest at the fair and got 5 skil points, zo i wend 520 but now i completed 6 more artifacts and no skill point is it from lvl 520 for every 10 artifact completed 1 point ?
any one knows how this works now ?

Comment by Zephytoth

very very, VERY easy to max now, I started doing this on my shaman alt this morning at skill 1, and currently i'm at 503. Apparently Blizz also buffed the Rare arch solve pop up, as I've found 7 today, one of them being the Int ring from Tol'vir (you don't know how annoyed I was when I went to Uldum the first time, after first fragments, 7/150 showing! But once I looked into that, it was the darn ring I already had dug up on my DK).

Comment by Euronomus

I can seemingly confirm togahsisokah's post, not solving a races artifact when you are able appears to drastically lower the chance of getting a corresponding digsite. stopped solving NE\\Troll\\fossil artifacts and have gotten 15 tol'vir, 2 dwarf and 4 fossil sites but no NE/troll since (also worth noting that I have not gotten the extinct turtle shell so that may be why I'm still getting fossil sites). Keep in mind that the inverse is also true-you should be solving for the races you want asap even in the middle of a dig so when that site is tapped out the one that replaces it will have a much better chance of being something you want.

Comment by iambigdaddy

WIth 5.0.4, they have added the two new symbols in the archaeology book, yet the previous mystery symbol is still there. Anyone know what this is? Looks like Indiana Jones...Harrison Jones....to me.

Comment by jtav4

As of 5.0.5 i got to 510 without incident. Then my next solve got me to 511. Then my next solve got me nothing. Then my next solve got me to 512... It's going to be a long haul to 600 at this rate...

Comment by Mourning

Can it really be true, that there is only 4 rares in the entire MoP expansion, or is the wowhead database missing some ?

Thanks in advance.

Comment by Flopi

Hi,

After coming back to WoW after a yearlong break I decided to farm myself the rare Tol'vir mount.

Rolled myself a brand new Monk and did half the leveling with Archaeology. Everything was good, tokens for artifacts everywhere. When I reached Uldum and Tol'Vir Hieroglyphs started appearing with the approximate rate of 1 per 4 sites I was even happier...

...and then the tokens stopped coming. 'Bad streak' I thought, 'keep digging'. After a while 'How come my luck is so bad!'. Then 'What the ... blizz.. RNG much!'.

After 70 Tol'vir solves without a single hieroglyph I looked more into it. In that time I only got 2 dwarf tokens and I had some common artifacts unsolved from that race. Other races were mostly solved. Nelf fully, Fossil and Troll 1 rare missing and Tol'Vir missing mount, staff, sword.

Logged onto my lvl 80 alt and started leveling Archaeology and sure enough, tokens started to reappear.

So thank you Blizzard for making this farm progressively harder.

TL DR: Tokens for races stop coming when you have most artifacts solved from that race.

EDIT: Just spoke with GM and he confirmed that this is intended.

Comment by Sounder

"The gap between 500 and 525 should be a little easier with an upcoming hotfix." Source: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/6794209479#4

Comment by bixzy

Can somebody please explain to me why it won't let me learn archaeology?

Comment by shadra

To show all solved artifact counts, copy paste this to chat. (Mogu + Pandaren included)

/run print("Total artifacts"); for x=1,12 do local c=GetNumArtifactsByRace(x); local a =0; for y=1,c do local t = select(9, GetArtifactInfoByRace(x, y)); a=a+t;end local rn = GetArchaeologyRaceInfo(x); if( c > 1 ) then print(rn .. ": " .. a); end end

Comment by Holoowwitch

any have a cluee to what or how to open last breach in mop alc

Comment by knightmagic

I am getting skill ups when i find the artifacts as well now. My skill is currently 360. Did they change that?

Comment by djarv84uk

Notes on levelling to 525 for Pandaria access - As of 3rd Nov 2012 (5.0.5)
There seem to have been some recent changes but I haven't seen it documented anywhere.

All finds (successful digs) from anywhere give you +1 skill point - works all the way to 600
I was getting +1 skill at 535 from Fossil finds in Un'Guro, and I checked with my last 600 skill point which came from a Troll find which was still orange.
This is a big change as the cap for this used to only be up to 50 or 100.
So you don't have to set foot in Pandaria if you don't want to, but you do get the solve bonuses back in Pandaria, so it seems more efficient to move on at 525 anyway.

However as Gymlea points out below you only get +3 skill for solves in Pandaria and you have to contend with high level mobs slowing you down...
So if your sole purpose is to hit 600 and not get anything from Pandaria then it may be quicker to stay in the old worlds, especially if you are not max level and taking advantage of the XP bonus for every find as I did on my latest alt that hasn't yet been to Pandaria. Cheers, Gymlea!

All non-Pandaria solves work up to skill level 525 and give:
Common: +5 skill (same)
Rare: +15 skill (same)
When 5.0 hit, these solves seemed to stall at 500-510 making problems for people trying to get to Pandaria to dig, but now it works up to 525.

Pandaria digs still appear at skill level 525.
Pandaria: +1 skill point per dig find, +3 skill points per any (common or rare*) solve up to 600.
*I didn't get any rare solves, I read it was the same, let me know if different.

The most efficient way now seems to just be solve everything when you can, don't save pieces up.
All makes it a lot less painful for alt levelling!

With the changes I have been levelling at around 100-150 skill points per hour to 525 using Gathermate2+data, Archaeology Helper (ArH) and Archy addons, but I'm sure pro folk can push to 200 per hour no probs.

Comment by Fireandice6

as of MoP it's important to remember that you can now survey each site 6 times, as opposed to 3 before the expansion. Meaning you should be completing a common artifact at every dig site - making the leveling process much quicker.

Comment by frakbt

Please correct the article to reflect Northrend dig sites become available at 375, not 350.

Comment by Sam97

I think , that they should add more artifacts into the game .

Just two new races and four not common items , seems not seriously for the huge MOP patch .

Comment by brunokbcao

I would like to suggest a correction in the following sentence:

Completing quests (ex. Pristine Apothecary Tins) will grant you a Restored Artifact and three keystones. Players that have returned pristine versions of all artifacts will achieve The Seat of Knowledge.

In fact, those quests (example) give 3x Restored Artifacts and one keystone, not the opposite.

Comment by bruyneelka

Couldn't find mention of it elsewhere in comments, but the guide has the rewards flipped for doing a pristine solve.
It reads:
Completing quests (ex. Pristine Apothecary Tins) will grant you a Restored Artifact and three keystones.
It should read:
Completing quests (ex. Pristine Apothecary Tins) will grant you THREE Restored Artifacts and ONE keystone.

Comment by Leiaza

I have noticed now I can dig at one location (spot) 10 times I don't know if this is a bug or they just made it to be easier I got to 50 points in just 5 spots

Comment by Elares

I'm still pretty upset that there isn't any rare end level item that you can get from archeology. Or at least a good transmog weapon or smthng :(

Comment by Enforcer84

I've been a casual archaeology fan since its inception but I'm curious with the Pandaren and Mogu branches...there's still one ghosted out, between Vrykul and Pandaren. It bugs the hell out of me. Who is that?

Comment by liorone

Hello all
i like to understend how or from where i can get the dragon since that i finish alle the archeology and i get only the skeleon dino pet.
i would like to know if somebody knows where and how i can get the dragon, cause i've already finished all the archeology.
thank you all.

Comment by Svenoshire

WORST DIG-SITE EVER!

What dig site do you hate the most?

I, personally, nominate Valley of the Emperors as the WORST DIG-SITE EVER because of all the banshies that constantly attack at every turn...

What about you? What is that one dig-site that gives you cause to groan when you realize you have to go there to find that next relic?

Comment by bryanredtop

I'm a 35 dwarf shaman and can't get arrchaeology training, am I doing something wrong?

Comment by Flixxie

For anyone that is wondering what the 10th Archeology character is, it's Mantid. I'm assuming it just launched with 5.2.

You can buy a Mantid Artifact Sonic Locator from Brann Bronzebeard at the Seat of Knowledge for one Restored Artifact. While you have the Locator, which lasts one day, it will cause any new digsites you discover to be Mantid digsites.

Happy bug zapping! :D

Comment by tolgasahin

I dont like pandaria Drop .. very very low

Comment by zuljintoon

Bad Archeology Changes

• #1 Blizz has added 1 second to the CD of survey (giving the ‘that item is not ready yet’ warning) costing us more time when trying to quickly narrow down a red survey. Why a survey should have more than a 1 second CD is certainly a mystery anyway – are we getting a more powerful cast / lol.
• #2 they made the distance of a green survey longer. Now you can NOT be basically guaranteed a discovery when surveying at 5 ‘paces’ or ‘yards’ after getting a green.
• #3 an orange survey is now less accurate, it no longer yields a straight path to a discovery.
• #4 you need to be closer to get an actual discovery to show now. I’m not positive about this, but the distance here seems to have been narrowed slightly – again causing more surveys.

These may seem like petty changes, but when all combined they are adding significant unnecessary time to this profession. (BTW, this seems to have occurred circa 5.0.5.)

Although I can only conjecture, perhaps this has been done to ease time pressure on crowded cross realm servers by keeping people out of congested areas.

I’d highly recommend pulling a ticket and pointing out that your game is no longer working as it had been and should be working. We are paying for playing time, not waiting time.

<Blizzard, why are you making an already barely credible "profession" more difficult?> ---> "Time is money, friend."

Comment by Gormshe

Downvoting a comment by someone asking for help, wow you guys are ignorant. Its a website people, designed to give information. Get off ur high horses and take the drama elsewhere.

Comment by Gruundarf

Without any nice epics to be gained by solving, Archaeology seems to be little more than a achievement/completist grind now. Or am I missing something?

Comment by Voidsoul

this articol is actually very helpfull for those who don't know what archaeology is,but it lacks some info for those who alrdy know it. for example if it's possible to complete a rare atifact twice on the same character.

Comment by Rodekill

A handy dandy bit of information on the Mantid Artifact Sonic Locator from Brann Bronzebeard at the Seat of Knowledge.

If farming any specific zone or any specific item like Ultramarine Qiraji Battle Tank or the Crawling Claw, you can purchase Mantid Artifact Sonic Locator which will randomize dig sites in all of Azeroth (not just Pandaria). If the dig sites for the zone you are needing is not popping up, you can use any method to re-zone which forces the dig sites to randomize again.

For example, I needed to farm the Tol'vir mount. I went to Uldum and as soon as I zoned in, it loaded the Tol'vir dig site. Once I was done with that dig site, I would either change zones, enter one of the dungeons nearby or relog to force it to load another Tol'vir. Every now and then I would have to do it more than once.

This does work for any zone so try it out.

Comment by pmpm

Archaeology takes quite a bit of time and it seems to me that it is harder to find things now than what it was a few patches back. I'm not sure why Blizzard is making it more time consuming.

Comment by Bogdanov89

I suggest you buy the Mantid Artifact Sonic Locator, it will allow you to randomize dig sites anywhere in the old world just by flying from one zone's border to the other - for more info, look at the Mantid Artifact Sonic Locator's page on wowhead.

To get exalted reputation needed for the Locator, just do all the Lorewalker stories across pandaria (takes about 1 hour to get full exalted).

Comment by Tanfana

Searched through all the comments here and couldn't find an answer to the following:

If you delete any of the artifacts (especially the rare/epic ones) can they be obtained a second time?

Comment by BZBmax

There is a nice add-on for assisting you in archaeology. It is "Archy" and you can get it here : http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/archy.

Comment by Ymagine

To whom can't see properly the telescope... it helps to know that the small light will always be in the RIGHT side of it.
So if you're standing behind the telescope, you may have the thin lens in front of you, the light on the right, and the wide lens in the other side... and there you should go!
And don't forget the Archy Addon
Hope it helps.
Good luck!

Comment by Cropz

Haven't seen this mentioned anywhere, oddly, but as of 5.4 you can now see a progress bar on each digsite, which tells you how many more fragments you can find there, and a nice little pop up once you've found all six of them.

I'm guessing everyone is busy with the Timeless Isle so nobody's doing any Archaeology? I know I haven't until today lol

Comment by harleyquinn4eva

Why are there no Tauren artifacts?

If it's green - I run to five.

If it's yellow - I run to fifteen

It it's red - I fly four seconds in that direction before trying again.

At high levels I'll pick up 30k per fragments.

Comment by Yogilaw

Good profession to learn, even if you use it purely for gold farming. There are quite a few nice 200g+ artifacts in Fossil & Dwarven that come up quire regularly. The Rares are only worth the bag space if you think you will have need of them at some time, a personal choice.
Also good to trade up those Motes of Harmony for Restored Artifacts at your base in the Vale.

The only real problem with the whole process is that the triangulation system for finding the items at dig sites is not that stable. In areas where there are buildings or rock faces you can be bouncing around for ages trying to find the damn thing. As a word of warning, don't bother with the site at the Ox Gate in Kun Lai Summit, life is too short & the experience won't be good for your blood pressure!

Comment by Discoverer

Those who are to try their digging skills in the area of Ironband's excavation site in Loch Modan will be surprised to find a statue which resembles a famous statue in real world. Good luck, adventurers ;)

Comment by belfslayer

So if anyone is wondering because i couldn't find anything on this.... the maximum # of pieces you can have for any 1 of them at a time is 200.

Comment by Loupland

In my personal and ever so humble opinion... The BEST profession out there!

It's fun and the loot is just cool. With the crown jewel being the sands of time ofcourse... But in between that all that funny items that dont really do something, but are just there.. Like the wind chimes.

Really awesome.

Comment by aerryn17

To access level 700 in WoD, you require http://wod.wowhead.com/item=109586, which is a co drop with fragments from Draenor digsites.

Comment by phascina

All the items of my solved list have disappeared since disconexion on 11/05/2014, even from achievement The Search For Fact, Not Truth. Has anybody else noticed this problem? i´ve written blizzard for this problem but haven.t got any answers nor it has been solved. Has anybody been able to solve it?

Comment by Duccis

As of 6.0.3, you do not gain skill above 600 from ANY non-WoD surveys nor solves.

So if you want to level Archaeology above, you need to be in WoD-areas. You also need to dig up Brittle Cartography Journal from said areas.
Regular and rares solves still give +5 and +10 skill.

More overview of archaeology can be found here:
http://www.wowhead.com/guide=2510/warlords-of-draenor-archaeology-overview

Comment by decembre

Seems like the locations of fragments in Draenor are more likely to be near or under other objects in the world. So you can save time surveying if you're near bushes, trees, rocks, other debris, or slopes instead of out in the open. Once you get a yellow or green survey, run in the direction indicated till you're near world objects, then survey again.

Extra tip: red surveys are very inaccurate and vary by around 100 degrees. If you get a red result, survey a few more times to see the other results and split the difference.

Comment by Duledarth

Hello all, i saw that with restored artifact,in wod you can buy Pandaren fragments,i had around 350ish of those restored and wanted to use it all on Pandaren to get 1 last pristine item. It first said that i need 700 archeology,i sad ok ,did it pretty fast ( on dig site in wod you can do 9 digs) then went to Arrakoa in Ashran,started buying pandaren fragments ,solved 5-6 and then i got Umbrella of Chi ji that you need 180 fragments, i was like what the hell i have that already,then i checked archaeology tab and in tab where it should say how many times you solved which item,everything is empty, its like i never did anything and that i will have rares to solve and waste fragments on them even tho i already have those rare items.
I wrote the ticket, 7 days waiting time ofc so will probably just do 3 new races in Dreanor but i dont wanna waste fragments on old stuff that i arleady have.

Has anyone else encountered any problems with archaeology in WOd?

Comment by Venatio

To level beyond 600 you need to dig up Brittle Cartography Journal.

It may be worth reading Jalopy2013's comment on the item needed which startsMake sure you have "show digsites" checked on your map...

Comment by fitsou

Is there a maximum number of artifacts you can collect from a race?
EX. there are X amount Dwarf artifact you can yet, once i collect all of them will it stop too show you dwarf dig sites?

Comment by ilCorvo

Am I the only one wondering where in the H, E, double toothpicks is WOD's new Archaeology stuff?...........All the other professions have already been reduced to making Daily CD's every day, has it been decided that archy just wasnt worth updating for this xpac?

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